Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.
Luigi, 20, lives with his mother and brother. A decade ago, their abusive father left. Luigi joins an extremist group seeking belonging, but his father's return poisons everything.
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Daisy and Violet, siamese twin sisters, are admired for their beautiful voices and singing abilities. However, an English doctor sees them at a communion and threatens to separate them, threatening a normal life.
The story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.
